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The Vicar of Tours
Honoré de Balzac · Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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Set in provincial Tours, this Balzac novel follows an unworldly priest whose comfortable lodgings and expectations are undermined through the scheming of those around him. Suitable for readers of nineteenth-century French literature and the Human Comedy series.
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
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